April 16, 2012
Like many of his students, Brent Wagner fell in love with theatre music at a young age. “I really loved the combination of text and music in the telling of a story, because music speaks to our emotions and the words carry the meaning,” he says. ”The combination, I found, was very powerful.” Photo by…
April 16, 2012
Thefts of unattended belongings on the U-M campus significantly have increased in the first three months of 2012 compared with 2011. The Department of Public Safety reminds students, faculty and staff to secure their valuables at all times. “We’ve had a significant increase in larceny reports in 2012,” says Interim Police Chief Joe Piersante. “We…
April 16, 2012
Title IX has made many strides in creating equal opportunities and scholarships for women, but more progress is needed as schools seek to comply with the law, says Vivian Stringer, women’s head basketball coach at Rutgers University. Title IX is the landmark legislation passed in 1972 that enabled women and girls to become high school…
April 16, 2012
More online For more information about Spring Commencement, go to http://www.umich.edu/~gradinfo/spring A Michigan engineer pays it forward Nicole Casal Moore News Service One Saturday morning as a fifth-grader, Christopher Boyd built a bridge out of popsicle sticks and decided engineering was cool. Now, more then a decade later, he will graduate this spring with a…
April 16, 2012
March 2012 crime map > Student robbed in Arb, suspect in jail A 26-year-old Saginaw man has been charged in connection with a March 19 unarmed robbery in the Arboretum. A student had reported that she was punched in the face around 4:40 p.m. as she walked in the Arb and her cell phone and…
April 16, 2012
To mark the major milestone of the HathiTrust Digital Library amassing its 10 millionth volume, the U-M Library will host a celebration at 4 p.m. Friday in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. Light refreshments will be served at the event. HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a collaboration of the 13 universities of the Committee…
April 9, 2012
When tropical marine cone snails sink their harpoon-like teeth into their prey, they inject paralyzing venoms made from a potent mix of more than 100 different neurotoxins. Biologists have known for more than a decade that the genes that provide the recipes for cone snail toxins are among the fastest-evolving genes in the animal kingdom.…
April 9, 2012
The U-M Library, in partnership with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and its Digital Library Federation (DLF) program, will help launch a new data curation fellowship program for recent doctoral scholars in the natural and social sciences. The aim of the CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship Program is to create a cadre of…
April 9, 2012
Hubert (Hu) English Hubert (Hu) English, emeritus professor of English, LSA, died suddenly Feb. 8 in a manner wholly in keeping with the civility of his life, family members say, while walking with his wife and their dog in a park. English was born July 2, 1925, in Gary, Ind. At 18, he entered national…
April 9, 2012
School of Art & Design students Payal Doshi, Cara Phelps and Stephanie O’Neil knit banners that were placed outside of Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library (below) as part of an art installation. Photos by Scott C. Soderberg, U-M Photo Services. Students installed 10,000 square-inches of colorful hand-knitted banners outside the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library in a…
